00:01:26.360Until you got there at 345, what was the airport like?
00:01:28.600this morning. Yeah, spring break's over for Bailey, back to classes today. So she wanted to be on the
00:01:33.580first flight, the early flight, for two reasons. One, she gets her early enough for class. But
00:01:37.720second, we were kind of worried about this. So we got to Fort Lauderdale, to the Southwest
00:01:43.940Terminal at 345. Why? Because TSA opens at 4 a.m. And then she had like a 530 flight, so she wanted
00:01:50.840plenty of time to be first in line. We pull up to the curb, and you've been there, right? We've all
00:01:56.220into fort lauderdale the cars were too deep you know i'm saying two cars deep stop side by side
00:02:02.420you know i'm saying we're at the curb unloading people and everything and i'm like oh my goodness
00:02:07.160look at the crowd and so we get her out kim weaves into the curb i get her out i walk through the
00:02:13.340double doors with her so i could look inside and i'm like oh boy i said bailey call us and let us
00:02:18.640know if you get stuck and you don't make the flight you know call us we'll loop around and
00:02:22.480get you um we'll come back but it was huge and she texted us and let us know tsa didn't get open
00:02:30.160until 4 15 then tsa pre-check you know got open after that and she got through and she made her
00:02:36.980flight but she says i was looking back dad and there were people i know they didn't make it i
00:02:41.920know they didn't make it because the number of people that were there and that was just by the
00:02:46.160way that's the first flight and the first people that were at fort lauderdale airport today the
00:02:51.980First, can you imagine what it's like right now, with the whole airport open, and it's not just the first flights leaving, flights are coming in, going out.
00:03:00.640I just can't imagine what it's like right now.
00:03:04.080And this is, you know, thank you, Elon Musk and other people who are offering to help and doing things.
00:03:10.020But I'll tell you, Pat, I've never seen it like that.
00:03:13.420Do you know how much of, you know, I don't think people understand how much of a problem and how much of a soft target this opens up, Tom.
00:03:23.200They don't have the freaking security.
00:03:24.600TSA, by the way, the TSA people that are showing up, Tom, they're not getting a paycheck.
00:03:28.580They're coming just because of the goodness of their freaking hearts.
00:03:31.260And I want everybody to understand this.
00:03:33.560Everybody, wherever you are listening to this, take a second and understand this is what happens when Democrats care more about power than your life in this country.
00:03:45.200Okay, we keep talking about America and America first.
00:05:24.540There was a tweet that was attributed to her from a year ago.
00:05:27.960And if the tweet was true, her sentiments were very clear that she was pleased that the American people need this pain so they could be broken for their size.
00:05:39.740And so, if that's really what her position was, that disgusts me.
00:05:46.820Yeah, Rob, while you're finding that, can you do me a favor?
00:05:49.520So, today, this morning, right now, at ATL, you know how long the line is right now?
00:05:53.700At ATL, allegedly, based on what these reports are coming in?
00:09:47.200But it's the time-honored tradition that Chuck Schumer has had of create a shutdown and blame the other guy and then let issues happen to this department, that department.
00:09:57.160American people can't go to the national parks because they're closed and then blame the administration.
00:10:09.360That has very carefully been his tactic, going back to the first Trump administration, where they actually argued about it in the Oval Office, where Trump said, I'll take it, Trump.
00:10:20.860And there are Democrats that are now coming out against Schumer saying, look, this guy is long in the tooth and we can't have this because they're concerned about it.
00:12:58.720Yeah, but the core of the argument is correct.
00:13:00.320If you don't have a platform that you can sell, and this is a point that Pat's made many times, if you don't have a platform that you can sell to the voters, and the Dems don't, they're not buying what you're selling, then you need mob rule and more mob just to blindly vote.
00:14:23.400We're doing absolutely everything we can. We have a national deployment office force and we've fully depleted that.
00:14:29.980So at this point, we're fully stretched. And so, frankly, there's not much else we can do as the weeks continue.
00:14:35.900If this continues, it's not hyperbole to suggest that we may have to quite literally shut down airports, particularly smaller ones.
00:14:43.380If call out rates go up and we can't a lot of these officers can't afford to come in.
00:14:48.080I talked to one officer this week. She's a single mother and she has a special needs child and she can't afford to pay for her special needs child's child care.
00:14:57.040So, again, we're we I believe it's frankly unconscionable that we have Senate Democrats that are playing, you know, they're holding our folks financial livelihood hostage over political games, political partisanship.
00:15:08.860So we really need to get back to normal order.
00:15:11.300Well, don't you think this is going to be, you know, if you look at the capitalism, that this is going to be opening up other options in the marketplace that people are going to do, whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, people are going to find a way to go where they want to go.
00:15:23.580Obviously, you know, listen, there's worse things than waiting a couple extra hours in the airport.
00:16:27.960You know how many times I've traveled?
00:16:29.200How many times I've traveled, Adam, where I've been on an airplane with somebody that's medically transferring an organ for someone that needs a surgery on the opposite side of the nation,